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I can't rave enough about encapsulation. I had it done with my oldest and had great results. I had it done again with my second child and did the raw method this time. Whenever I my milk supply dips I take a pill, or when my hormones are off and I'm emotional I take one. If you are in Savannah and want placenta encapsulation check out www.placentaencapsulationsavannah.com

I saw a midwife who also practices naturopathy about increasing my milk supply after #6 being born. She wanted me to consume my placenta, which I just happened to freeze for another reason. The gal who encapsulated was unavailable for a week. So my husband prepared my placenta by cutting into inch-sized cubes and we put them in the freezer. Everyday, I had taken a cube and added it to the blender to prepare with a smoothy.

My doula cut off a piece of my placenta right after birth and put it in a fruit smoothie for me that I consumed within 30 minutes of birth. (It was a home birth). The rest of the placenta she encapsulated for me. I found that felt great! I had no postpartum depression, I felt and looked great, and never got tired despite extreme lack of sleep! I actually felt that I looked better than I ever had in my life, the day after giving birth (I felt that my skin and hair looked awesome) and oddly enough, others told me that I looked really great as well, considering that I just gave birth. I can only assume that this is all because of eating the placenta. I've been taking it in capsules daily ever since, (my baby is a month old now) and I find that if I miss a day I get a little tired and sad. Eat your placenta, it's the difference between feeling great or feeling like poop!!

I encapsulated my placenta after my 3rd birth, using a similar method as the lady in the article, only I added cayenne and other 'heating' herbs to it while it steamed, and I dehydrated it thoroughly in our dehydrator, not the oven. I felt *amazing* recovered so quickly! No mood swings or baby blues, great energy, just bounced back! I highly, highly recommend it to all moms, if you can get the placenta released from the hospital.

I just bought encapsulation services and haven't tried it before, but I also believe it is done ASAP. After all, one of the benefits is to increase milk supply... along with the other benefits, who wouldn't want them to begin immediately? Not sure about the 6-week freeze/thaw.

My midwife told me with my first baby, 2 years ago, that some women ingest the placenta after giving birth, I was grossed out!!! Then I bled a LOT after birth. And for nearly a year I struggled with thinking I didn't have enough milk for my son (which I did, I just had to drink a LOT of mother's milk tea) This time around, my N.D. suggested encapsulating my placenta and told me that HISTORICALLY women all around the world ingest the placenta to stop bleeding, increase milk supply, feel more joyful, and so much more. I am convinced!!! I am doing it this time around!!!

I see that Samantha froze her placenta for 6 weeks before starting this process...I was just wondering if this step is necessary, as I have seen other instruction guides say to start it as soon as you get home from the hospital in order to start receiving the amazing benefits! Just wondering what is the best way.

I am a birth and postpartum doula and founder of a doula group called Philadelphia Doulas. We have been offering placenta encapsulation for almost 2 years now. we have had so many families submit their happy stories about the great benefits they had from their placenta encapsulation with us. Then(just about a year ago!) I had my third baby and got to do placenta encapsulation for the first time. I was THRILLED with the results. I had more energy and less weepiness in the initial 3 weeks after birth than I did with my first two baby's. www.philadelphiadoulas.com

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